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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






2. The main character of a literary work.






3. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






4. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






5. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






6. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






7. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






8. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






9. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






10. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






11. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






12. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






13. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






14. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






15. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






16. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






17. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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20. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






21. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






22. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






23. A strong pause within a line.






24. A character struggles against some outside force.






25. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






26. The organizational form of a literary work.






27. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






28. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






29. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






30. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






31. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






32. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






34. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






35. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






36. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






37. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






38. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






39. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






40. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






41. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






42. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






43. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






44. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






45. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






46. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






47. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






48. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






49. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






50. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.